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The Grail is another knockout from New York Times best-selling author Bob Mayer writing as Robert Doherty.

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At first, I thought that it was just me. I have listened to probably over 100 Audiobooks over the past couple of years and have enjoyed most of them greatly - but THIS book......let's just say that after the first few hours - I HAD to abandon the effort and purchase the book on Amazon to read on my Kindle.

Martin Gollery narrated this book. And the result was HORRIBLE. This is absolutely the worst audiobook experience of my life, and I was quite impressed with how badly a bad narrator could destroy the experience of an Audiobook. The Author's story/book are amazing - and it is really a "page turner".

But Gollery's destruction of the Audiobook experience is unforgivable - to the point that for the first time - I actually will pay attention to the Name of the Narrator and will REFUSE to buy any audiobook Narrated by Martin Gollery.

The narrative style of Martin Gollery is best described as an inhuman robot with tones and inflections of voice that are consistently irritating. Specifically, he inflects his voice down at the end of each and every sentence - much like how a priest recites a sermon in those boring Sunday sermons at church you used to be forced to attend, where the priest was simply reciting a passage that he was just trying to "get through" and which the parishioners pretended to listen to while being all lost in their own thoughts.

It is hard to completely describe how such a totally unskilled and careless narrator can completely destroy the Audiobook experience. I had friends listen to it as well, just in case I was totally off base - and they ubiquitously upheld my opinion while no few of them simply shuddered at the terrible experience at having had to listen to Gollery's disastrous narrative style for even just a few moments.

I cannot believe that the publisher of this audiobook would consent to such a terrible destruction of what would ordinarily be a wonderful experience - and can only wonder if Martin Gollery is either a close friend or relative of someone in the Publishing company that was given a chance.

Maybe nobody will read this, but if you do - I hope that you will find this review helpful.

Would you try another book from Robert Doherty and Bob Mayer and/or Martin Gollery?

The first three books were great so, yes, I would buy another Robert Doherty/Bob Mayer book. The narration was painful. Halfway through the first half and I'm almost in tears. If not for the fact that I'm interested in the story, I'd stop listening.<br/><br/>Producers of audio books need to take more care in choosing narrators and to make sure that narrators listen to previous books in a series if there are any if for no other reason than to get the pronunciation of words and names. Some of the pronunciations are just brutal.

What didn’t you like about Martin Gollery’s performance?

The narrator needs to tell the story, not just read EVERY...WORD... DELIBERATELY. It might be a good idea to listen to a story before you tell one.

Where did they get this narrator? He may be a nice guy but he was a bad choice for reading this. I listened to it just to know the story but it was not enjoyable. I liked the first 4 books a lot but this was just brutal to get through!

Would you be willing to try another one of Martin Gollery’s performances?

Absolutely not, as his performance was atrocious to say the least. I have listened to quite a few audiobooks in my day, and good Martin's performance was, by far, the worst. "Monotone, emotionless robot" would be a good way to describe Mr. Martin. Every 3 syllables that he spoke, 12 innocent children began to cry. With a pace of approximately 40 syllables every 10 seconds, this means that, throughout the course of the audiobook, Martin directly caused the tears of roughly 34140 independent, innocent children. <br/><br/>He was terrible...I recommend you just suck it up and read the actual book.

If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?

"This movie is awesome! As long as they didn't cast Martin Gollery for any role whatsover...seriously that is all it would take for this movie to not be terrible."

A different narrator. Or at least a narrator that pronounced the names in the story correctly. Editing of the narration when mistakes were made, instead of catching the mistake and restating. I couldn't believe the poor quality.

I LOVE this series. Right after I read the first book Kindle/Audible as combination purchases had a massive sale on most of the books in the series so I bought them up. I could NOT take listening to this narrator for even 30 minutes. I will eventually get back to the series and read the Kindle version. I have been an avid Audible listener for about 5 years and listen to 40-50 books a year. This is the first time I completely gave up on a book solely due to the narrator's poor performance. I have struggled through painfully listening to several to the end because the story or the series was so good I just couldn't stop myself, but not this time. I've come back over the last 3 months or so since the first attempt hoping that Audible and the author's would team up to have the book re-produced but to no avail. I seriously do not know how any of the other reviewer's were able to finish this book.